Voting for PEP 308 (was Re: For review: PEP 308 - If-then-elseexpression)

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Mon Feb 10 23:02:47 EST 2003


"James J. Besemer" wrote:

> Laura Creighton wrote:
> 
> > This is the logical order for people like you who want a ternary
> > conditional that they will take whatever they can get, however ugly.
> > The most important thing is getting it in, as long as it is not
> > unreadable.
> 
> It's unfair to ascribe that position to Eric or to other than a small
> minority of posters that I can see.

Thank you.  The "however ugly" comment is just characterization, no buts
about it.

> My sense of the many hundreds of posts is that most of the people who
> don't
> care what the construct looks like also don't care much if it gets in
> or not.

Agreed.

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